Prepared by:
Sarah Blackadar, Sarah Bood, Carol Burroughs, Liz McCabe, Kim Mertens
Title: Exploring Ancient Egypt
Grade: 5
Curriculum Outcomes:
5.2.2 Explain how place influenced the emergence of an ancient society - locate the society on a world map - identify the significant geographic feature that influenced the emergence of the society - describe the attributes of this geographic feature - explain how this feature nurtured the development of the society
5.2.3
Explain the diverse lifestyles of the people within an ancient society - identify the lifestyles of various groups in this society - account for variations in lifestyles that resulted from location and climate - examine other factors that influenced lifestyle
Materials: 1. Construction Paper 2. Passport templates 3. Wallet sized pictures of all students 4. Stapler 5. Access to Computers and the Internet
Pre-Activities: 1. Teacher will begin the class by presenting a virtual field trip on Google Earth to the students. (Museums and Egyptianlandmarks) 2. At the end of the video the teacher will tell the students “We’re going to Egypt! Before we go it’s important to know a little bit about where we are going. 3. In groups of 4-5, students will create concept map based on what they know and learned from the Google Earth field trip. 4. As groups present their concept maps, the teacher will get track of responses on a KWL chart. Once all groups have presented, the class will add things they want to learn to the KWL chart. 5. Now that we know where we are going, we need a passport to get there. Teacher will show her handmade passport to the class and discuss it with students. What is it? Why do you need it? What happens to it when you travel? Students will then be given the supplies needed to create their own passport.
Activities:
Students will go on a virtual scavenger hunt to learn about ancient Egypt. The vitual tour will be on a wikispace, and will include questions and activities for each museum. Students will complete the required activity within the passport and submit it to the teacher to receive a stamp for each correctly completed activity.
1. E-Museum http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/prehistory/egypt/ Please visit the following link, it will take you to a fully online museum! There are lots of exhibits to visit here but for now, click on cultures on left yellow bar. Then click on “Old World Culture”, then click on “Africa”. As you can see there are many cultures in Africa! Click on Ancient Egypt. You can read about Egypt or you look down at the bottom of the page right away. Click on the “Ancient Egyptian Exhibit”. You are going to visit the longest river in Egypt, and in fact all of Africa! Click on “Daily Life”. Click on the first link listed on the next page. *Tip: It has the word geography in the title. The Egyptians centered their lives around this river because it brought water to their growing crops. Read the first paragraph on this page. What was the name of the river? Write the name of the river in your passport. Now click “back” to Daily life, then click “back” again. You should now be on the “Ancient Egyptian Culture Exhibit” page. To show that you visited the Nile, draw a picture of it in your passport. You will see an outline of Egypt in your passport, draw the river on this map.
2. Museum of Civilization http://www.civilization.ca/cmc/exhibitions/civil/egypt/egcl02e.shtml (Explore-Online Exhibits-Civilizations-Mysteries of Egypt-Egyptian Civilization-Daily Life-Food.)
Activity: Create a menu for a meal that might have been served at a noble’s or Pharaoh’s banquet. How would this differ from the menu of a typical Egyptian peasant?
Read the article on the King Tut exhibit website entitled “Discovery” and learn about the discovery of King Tut’s tomb.
Activity: Imagine you are the archaeologist who discovered King Tut’s tomb. Write a letter to your family describing your findings. How do you feel about this discovery? Why is this important? You may also include some additional facts about King Tut in your letter that you can find in the other articles listed under “The Story of King Tut”.
4. Australia Museum http://australianmuseum.net.au
(Click on Culture, select Egypt, select Artisans) Look at the images and then click back to the Ancient Egypt page and click on Art and Artisans. Look at the headings and pick a type of art you are interested in learning about (Pottery, Sculpture, Scribe, Painting, and Jewlery). Draw a picture of one of these types of art in your passport and answer one of the questions below. 1. Pottery – What materials are Egyptian pottery made from? *Tip: Read the paragraphs and the comments under the pictures. You can click on the pictures to learn more. 2. Sculptures – What materials were used to make sculptures? 3. Hieroglyphs - What material were hieroglyphs carved into? 4. Painting – What materials were used to make the color green and black? 5. Jewelery – What materials were used to make jewelery for the rich and what materials were used to make jewelery for the poor? If you want you can draw a mummy or a mummy in a tomb with your piece of art as well. If you are interested in learning more about a type of egyptian art you can google it and draw a different image as long as you copy down the website you visited.
5. British Museum http://www.britishmuseum.org/ (Search “Rosetta Stone” in top right hand corner. Click on “Rosetta Stone: A Page from Young Explorers”
Answer the following questions, based on your reading.
1. Found:
2. Date:
3. Made of:
4. Where at the museum is it found?
5. How long has the stone been displayed at the museum?
6. What is the Rosetta Stone? Why is it significant?
7. What are hieroglyphs?
8. What is the message on the Rosetta Stone called?
9. How did experts read the message on the Rosetta Stone?
10. Give two interesting facts about the Rosetta Stone
11. What does this artifact show us about ancient societies in Egypt?
12. Create a message using your own hieroglyphs. Make up simple symbols for each letter of the alphabet, and a legend for others to decipher your message, and have fun!
Follow-up Activities:
Create a postcard explaining which artifact was your favourite and why. Draw a picture of it on the front of the postcard and send it to your parents.
Prepared by:
Sarah Blackadar, Sarah Bood, Carol Burroughs, Liz McCabe, Kim Mertens
Title: Exploring Ancient Egypt
Grade: 5
Curriculum Outcomes:
5.2.2 Explain how place influenced the emergence of an ancient society
- locate the society on a world map
- identify the significant geographic feature that influenced the emergence of the society
- describe the attributes of this geographic feature
- explain how this feature nurtured the development of the society
5.2.3
Explain the diverse lifestyles of the people within an ancient society
- identify the lifestyles of various groups in this society
- account for variations in lifestyles that resulted from location and climate
- examine other factors that influenced lifestyle
Materials:
1. Construction Paper
2. Passport templates
3. Wallet sized pictures of all students
4. Stapler
5. Access to Computers and the Internet
Pre-Activities:
1. Teacher will begin the class by presenting a virtual field trip on Google Earth to the students. (Museums and Egyptianlandmarks)
2. At the end of the video the teacher will tell the students “We’re going to Egypt! Before we go it’s important to know a little bit about where we are going.
3. In groups of 4-5, students will create concept map based on what they know and learned from the Google Earth field trip.
4. As groups present their concept maps, the teacher will get track of responses on a KWL chart. Once all groups have presented, the class will add things they want to learn to the KWL chart.
5. Now that we know where we are going, we need a passport to get there. Teacher will show her handmade passport to the class and discuss it with students. What is it? Why do you need it? What happens to it when you travel? Students will then be given the supplies needed to create their own passport.
Activities:
Students will go on a virtual scavenger hunt to learn about ancient Egypt. The vitual tour will be on a wikispace, and will include questions and activities for each museum. Students will complete the required activity within the passport and submit it to the teacher to receive a stamp for each correctly completed activity.
1. E-Museum
http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/prehistory/egypt/
Please visit the following link, it will take you to a fully online museum! There are lots of exhibits to visit here but for now, click on cultures on left yellow bar. Then click on “Old World Culture”, then click on “Africa”. As you can see there are many cultures in Africa! Click on Ancient Egypt. You can read about Egypt or you look down at the bottom of the page right away. Click on the “Ancient Egyptian Exhibit”.
You are going to visit the longest river in Egypt, and in fact all of Africa! Click on “Daily Life”. Click on the first link listed on the next page. *Tip: It has the word geography in the title.
The Egyptians centered their lives around this river because it brought water to their growing crops. Read the first paragraph on this page. What was the name of the river? Write the name of the river in your passport.
Now click “back” to Daily life, then click “back” again. You should now be on the “Ancient Egyptian Culture Exhibit” page. To show that you visited the Nile, draw a picture of it in your passport. You will see an outline of Egypt in your passport, draw the river on this map.
2. Museum of Civilization
http://www.civilization.ca/cmc/exhibitions/civil/egypt/egcl02e.shtml
(Explore-Online Exhibits-Civilizations-Mysteries of Egypt-Egyptian Civilization-Daily Life-Food.)
Activity: Create a menu for a meal that might have been served at a noble’s or Pharaoh’s banquet. How would this differ from the menu of a typical Egyptian peasant?
3. King Tut Exhibit
http://www.kingtut.org/about_the_exhibition
(Go to the story of King Tut and click on the article entitled Discovery).
Read the article on the King Tut exhibit website entitled “Discovery” and learn about the discovery of King Tut’s tomb.
Activity: Imagine you are the archaeologist who discovered King Tut’s tomb. Write a letter to your family describing your findings. How do you feel about this discovery? Why is this important? You may also include some additional facts about King Tut in your letter that you can find in the other articles listed under “The Story of King Tut”.
4. Australia Museum
http://australianmuseum.net.au
(Click on Culture, select Egypt, select Artisans)
Look at the images and then click back to the Ancient Egypt page and click on Art and Artisans. Look at the headings and pick a type of art you are interested in learning about (Pottery, Sculpture, Scribe, Painting, and Jewlery). Draw a picture of one of these types of art in your passport and answer one of the questions below.
1. Pottery – What materials are Egyptian pottery made from? *Tip: Read the paragraphs and the comments under the pictures. You can click on the pictures to learn more.
2. Sculptures – What materials were used to make sculptures?
3. Hieroglyphs - What material were hieroglyphs carved into?
4. Painting – What materials were used to make the color green and black?
5. Jewelery – What materials were used to make jewelery for the rich and what materials were used to make jewelery for the poor?
If you want you can draw a mummy or a mummy in a tomb with your piece of art as well.
If you are interested in learning more about a type of egyptian art you can google it and draw a different image as long as you copy down the website you visited.
5. British Museum
http://www.britishmuseum.org/
(Search “Rosetta Stone” in top right hand corner. Click on “Rosetta Stone: A Page from Young Explorers”
Answer the following questions, based on your reading.
1. Found:
2. Date:
3. Made of:
4. Where at the museum is it found?
5. How long has the stone been displayed at the museum?
6. What is the Rosetta Stone? Why is it significant?
7. What are hieroglyphs?
8. What is the message on the Rosetta Stone called?
9. How did experts read the message on the Rosetta Stone?
10. Give two interesting facts about the Rosetta Stone
11. What does this artifact show us about ancient societies in Egypt?
12. Create a message using your own hieroglyphs. Make up simple symbols for each letter of the alphabet, and a legend for others to decipher your message, and have fun!
Follow-up Activities:
Create a postcard explaining which artifact was your favourite and why. Draw a picture of it on the front of the postcard and send it to your parents.
Resources:
http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/prehistory/egypt/
http://www.kingtut.org/home http://www.britishmuseum.org/ http://www.civilization.ca/splash.html http://australianmuseum.net.au/